India coronavirus numbers explained: Tamil Nadu, Delhi negate impact of spread slowing in Maharashtra

India Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases Numbers: While the dominance of Maharashtra in the country-wide spread of the Covid-19 disease has weakened in the last few weeks, that of Tamil Nadu and Delhi has increased.

Written by Amitabh Sinha , Edited by Explained Desk
Pune | Updated: June 18, 2020 08:24 AM IST

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India Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases: While the dominance of Maharashtra in the country-wide spread of the Covid-19 disease has weakened in the last few weeks, that of Tamil Nadu and Delhi has increased. That, in effect, has meant that the contribution of these three states in the national caseload has remained almost constant in the last one month, between 56 and 58 per cent.

Delhi and Tamil Nadu have been reporting almost 2,000 new cases each for the last few days now, while Maharashtra has now begun to report between 3,000 and 3,500 cases every day.

On Sunday, more than 11,000 new cases were discovered across the country, taking the total number of infections to more than 3.32 lakh.

In the top ten states with maximum caseloads, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh have been losing their places, reporting fewer number of new cases every day, while Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal have been climbing up. Karnataka and Haryana are the new entrants in the top ten list, while Bihar and Andhra Pradesh have been edged out.

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In the last few days, several states that had been showing a surge in numbers due to large number of infections found in incoming migrant populations have begun signs of slowing down. Bihar, Assam, Kerala, Tripura and Odisha have started reporting lower numbers from what they were doing a few days ago. In fact, the growth rates of Bihar, Kerala and Odisha have now fallen below four per cent, and in the case of Bihar and Kerala, even below the current national rate of 3.73 per cent. Assam, which was growing at over 10 per cent about a week ago, has now got down to below seven per cent. Tripura has a current growth rate of about 4.3 per cent.

Top ten states with maximum caseload

STATE	TOTAL POSITIVE	NEW CASES	TOTAL RECOVERIES	DEATHS
*Maharashtra*	107,958	3,390	50,978	3,950
*Tamil Nadu*	44,661	1,974	24,547	435
*Delhi*	41,182	2,224	15,823	1,327
*Gujarat*	23,590	512	16,333	1,478
*Uttar Pradesh*	13,615	497	8,268	399
*Rajasthan*	12,581	293	9,453	292
*West Bengal*	11,087	389	5,060	475
*Madhya Pradesh*	10,802	161	7,677	459
*Haryana*	7,208	459	3,003	88
*Karnataka*	7,000	176	3,955	89

In their place, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand, the three states that were together created in the year 2000, have begun to show a rapid growth in numbers, but all three of them have less than 2,000 total infections as of now.

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On Sunday, more than 11,000 new cases were discovered across the country, taking the total number of infections to more than 3.32 lakh. Despite the increasing number of new cases, the growth rate is still slowing down. On June 11, it had fallen below four per cent, and the decline has continued further. On Sunday, it had fallen to 3.73 per cent.

Also, on Sunday, Ladakh reported more than 100 cases for the third consecutive day. With 112 new cases, Ladakh now has 549 confirmed infections. Sikkim, which too had reported an unusually high number of new cases on Friday, seems to have normalised though. The state had zero cases on Saturday and five on Sunday. It now has a total of 68 cases.